Mormon (disambiguation)

Mormons are people who are members of a religious group that is part of Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint movement.

Mormon may also refer to:

Religion

  • Mormon (word), informal term for a follower or constituent of the Latter-Day Saint movement, the polite term being 'saint'
  • Mormonism, term for Christian theologies which accept the Book of Mormon, common to the Latter-Day Saint movement
  • The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also known as the "LDS Church" or "Mormon Church", the largest and most prominent faith within the Latter Day Saint movement
  • Latter-Day Saint movement, the group of faiths tracing their origin to Joseph Smith Jr.
  • Mormon studies, the academic discipline involving scholarship about Mormons
  • Mormon fundamentalism, branches of the Latter-Day Saint movement which continue to practice polygamy
  • Jack Mormon, slang for an unbaptized Mormon sympathizer or a Mormon member who is not fully devout

Literature

Places

Arts and entertainment

Butterflies

  • "Mormon" is part of the common name of several butterflies in the genus Papilio, in particular:
    • Andaman Mormon (Papilio mayo) found in the Adamans
    • Great Mormon (Papilio memnon), endemic to Indochina and Japan
    • Blue Mormon (Papilio polymnestor), endemic to parts of India
    • Common Mormon (Papilio polytes), endemic to India, the Himalayas, parts of China, and Indochina
    • Scarlet Mormon (Papilio rumanzovia), endemic to the Philippines and Celebes

Other uses

  • 'Mormon tea', a name for plants of the genus Ephedra
  • Anabrus simplex, the Mormon cricket
  • Sphenophorus mormon, a species of beetle in the family Dryophthoridae
  • Mopsus mormon is an Australian spider species of the family Salticidae (jumping spiders)
  • inflected form of Mormo (Greek: Μορμώ, Μορμών, Mormō), a female spirit in Greek folklore

See also